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April 28, 2009
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BROOKLINE MAN SENTENCED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS IN AN APPLICATION FOR U.S. PASSPORT
Boston, MA ... A Brookline MA, man was sentenced today in federal court for making false statements in an application for United States Passport.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and James P. Ennis, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, announced that ERIC E. HYETT, age 38, of Brookline, MA, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro to one year of probation. On February 3, 2009, HYETT pled guilty to one count of making false statements in an application for a United States passport.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the evidence would have proven that HYETT and Joshua Glazer were married in Massachusetts in 2004, and, thereafter, adopted a minor child and moved to New York City. On October 1, 2007, after HYETT and Glazer had separated, a New York City Family Court Judge granted them joint custody of the minor child. Glazer had physical custody of the child on weekdays, while HYETT had physical custody on the weekends.
On July 23, 2008, HYETT fraudulently obtained a New Jersey Non-Driver Identification
Card, bearing his own photograph, but bearing the name and date of birth of Joshua Glazer. In
August 2008, HYETT, accompanied by a young boy, appeared at the Boston Passport Center in
Boston, MA. At that time, he applied for a United States passport for the minor child. HYETT
also applied to renew his own passport, providing his own New York driver’s license as proof of
identity. HYETT was issued the passports for himself and his minor child.
HYETT took custody of the child for the weekend, and sought Glazer’s permission to
keep the child until August 5, 2008, to which Glazer agreed. On August 5, 2008, HYETT and
his son flew from Boston to Tel Aviv, Israel. On or about August 13, 2008, after a hearing in
Israel, the minor child was returned to Glazer
The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette E.M. Leoney in Louck’s Major Crimes Unit.
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